07/11/2013 18:57
Pussy Riot: Tolokonnikova 'missing in Siberia'
The husband and supporters of a jailed Pussy Riot band member are trying to find her in Russia's Siberian prison camp system on her 24th birthday, the BBC reported.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is being transferred to a different prison but her husband Pyotr Verzilov says he has heard nothing from her for 19 days.
He posted a photo of himself on Twitter from Nizhniy Ingash, a Siberian village where he thought she might be in jail.
She and another band member were jailed over a protest in a Moscow cathedral.
Nizhniy Ingash is in the Krasnoyarsk region of central Siberia, some 4,500km (2,796 miles) east of Moscow.
In September Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike at a penal colony in Mordovia, which lies between Siberia and Moscow.
She is serving a two-year jail term for hooliganism. She and two other Pussy Riot protesters were sentenced in August 2012, but one of them was later released on appeal.